Big Reuse
@bigreuse.bsky.social
🌱 Environmental Nonprofit & Mega Reuse Center / Thrift Store
♻️ Compost • Outreach • Street Tree Care • Green Jobs
⏰ Open Every Day 10am-6pm (1 12th St. Brooklyn)
Find us at bigreuse.org and instagram.com/bigreuse
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♻️ Compost • Outreach • Street Tree Care • Green Jobs
⏰ Open Every Day 10am-6pm (1 12th St. Brooklyn)
Find us at bigreuse.org and instagram.com/bigreuse
linktr.ee/bigreuse
Planning to compost your post-holiday meal scraps in NYC? Our NYSDERA Fellow Tatiana Guerra put together a guide on where and what to compost the leftovers from your table! 🍗🥗🥕🧄
Read more: bigreuse.org/blogs/news/f...
Read more: bigreuse.org/blogs/news/f...
From Feast to Future: Composting Your Food Scraps
Composting in New York City is easier than ever, no matter where you live. Whether you’re in an apartment, a house, or somewhere in between, there are many options to give your food scraps a second li...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Planning to compost your post-holiday meal scraps in NYC? Our NYSDERA Fellow Tatiana Guerra put together a guide on where and what to compost the leftovers from your table! 🍗🥗🥕🧄
Read more: bigreuse.org/blogs/news/f...
Read more: bigreuse.org/blogs/news/f...
Give BIG for NYC by supporting our End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign! Support Big Reuse to continue to bring composting, tree care, reuse, education, outreach, and community to our amazing city. Donate today at bigreuse.org/donate.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Give BIG for NYC by supporting our End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign! Support Big Reuse to continue to bring composting, tree care, reuse, education, outreach, and community to our amazing city. Donate today at bigreuse.org/donate.
Thank you to @brooklyncollege.bsky.social's BC Brief for covering our recent projects with students! Learn more about a recently installed composting system & our tree guard collaboration w/ the Office of Environmental Health, Safety, and Sustainability & TREEage 🌳
www.brooklyn.edu/bc-brief/bro...
www.brooklyn.edu/bc-brief/bro...
Brooklyn College Partners With Local Groups to Grow a Greener Campus - Brooklyn College
Alumni-led initiatives and community collaborations bring composting and tree care to the forefront.
www.brooklyn.edu
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Thank you to @brooklyncollege.bsky.social's BC Brief for covering our recent projects with students! Learn more about a recently installed composting system & our tree guard collaboration w/ the Office of Environmental Health, Safety, and Sustainability & TREEage 🌳
www.brooklyn.edu/bc-brief/bro...
www.brooklyn.edu/bc-brief/bro...
✨ Congratulations to NYC's Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani on a historic win! As Assembly Member for District 36, Mamdani supported our 2024 partnership with Rise Light & Power to plant street trees and transform the tree pits in Queens, helping offset pollution from power plants & improving air quality.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
✨ Congratulations to NYC's Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani on a historic win! As Assembly Member for District 36, Mamdani supported our 2024 partnership with Rise Light & Power to plant street trees and transform the tree pits in Queens, helping offset pollution from power plants & improving air quality.
📣 We're excited to announce Big Reuse will be opening a new Reuse Center (thrift store) in Bushwick, near the Jefferson L train station! We still have a bunch of work to do but aim to be open by December. Stay tuned!
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
📣 We're excited to announce Big Reuse will be opening a new Reuse Center (thrift store) in Bushwick, near the Jefferson L train station! We still have a bunch of work to do but aim to be open by December. Stay tuned!
SAT, OCT 25: Help Big Reuse & JH SCRAPS make green spaces in Jackson Heights more resilient! Volunteers will sift, turn, & break down food scraps. Your hard work ultimately results in finished compost that goes back into public spaces in the neighborhood ✨
www.eventbrite.com/e/compost-vo...
www.eventbrite.com/e/compost-vo...
Compost Volunteer Day With JH Scraps & Big Reuse!
Join us for a day of sifting, turning, and breaking down food scraps!
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October 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
SAT, OCT 25: Help Big Reuse & JH SCRAPS make green spaces in Jackson Heights more resilient! Volunteers will sift, turn, & break down food scraps. Your hard work ultimately results in finished compost that goes back into public spaces in the neighborhood ✨
www.eventbrite.com/e/compost-vo...
www.eventbrite.com/e/compost-vo...
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Also please join us Sun, Oct 19th at 10am for our next street tree care event! Learn about and care for Bushwick street trees.
*Meet at 121 Starr Street.
*All supplies provided
*Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/street-tre...
Thanks to our partners! @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social @bigreuse.bsky.social
*Meet at 121 Starr Street.
*All supplies provided
*Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/street-tre...
Thanks to our partners! @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social @bigreuse.bsky.social
Street Tree Care w/ Clean Bushwick Initiative
Join us to clean, care for, and add finished compost to the street trees thanks to District 34 Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez
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October 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Also please join us Sun, Oct 19th at 10am for our next street tree care event! Learn about and care for Bushwick street trees.
*Meet at 121 Starr Street.
*All supplies provided
*Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/street-tre...
Thanks to our partners! @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social @bigreuse.bsky.social
*Meet at 121 Starr Street.
*All supplies provided
*Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/street-tre...
Thanks to our partners! @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social @bigreuse.bsky.social
Learn more about composting and how to participate in the Department of Sanitation’s mandatory curbside composting program.
Receive a free 1-gallon kitchen container and bin decal while supplies last from Big Reuse!
We can’t wait to meet you and talk curbside composting with you.
Receive a free 1-gallon kitchen container and bin decal while supplies last from Big Reuse!
We can’t wait to meet you and talk curbside composting with you.
April 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Learn more about composting and how to participate in the Department of Sanitation’s mandatory curbside composting program.
Receive a free 1-gallon kitchen container and bin decal while supplies last from Big Reuse!
We can’t wait to meet you and talk curbside composting with you.
Receive a free 1-gallon kitchen container and bin decal while supplies last from Big Reuse!
We can’t wait to meet you and talk curbside composting with you.
Join the Save our Compost Press Rally on Tuesday 3/25 at 10:30am on NY City Hall steps. This will coincide with DSNY’s testimony and lead up to public testimony, which begins at 11 am.
Thank you for your support, we hope to see you there!
Thank you for your support, we hope to see you there!
March 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Join the Save our Compost Press Rally on Tuesday 3/25 at 10:30am on NY City Hall steps. This will coincide with DSNY’s testimony and lead up to public testimony, which begins at 11 am.
Thank you for your support, we hope to see you there!
Thank you for your support, we hope to see you there!
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Office turntable set-up with a few $2 LPs from the @bigreuse.bsky.social #turntables #fridayfun ##records (still boycotting, LPs from urban waste cleanup nonprofit thrift shop)
February 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Office turntable set-up with a few $2 LPs from the @bigreuse.bsky.social #turntables #fridayfun ##records (still boycotting, LPs from urban waste cleanup nonprofit thrift shop)
In collaboration with @nybg.bsky.social Bronx Green Up, we now have six food scrap drop offs in the Bronx open* for collection! #communitycompost
*Karol's Community Farm is opening on 2/21
*Karol's Community Farm is opening on 2/21
February 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In collaboration with @nybg.bsky.social Bronx Green Up, we now have six food scrap drop offs in the Bronx open* for collection! #communitycompost
*Karol's Community Farm is opening on 2/21
*Karol's Community Farm is opening on 2/21
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Thrifted some well-made dress shirts today at @bigreuse.bsky.social Tried on a wonderful home-sewn dress ('60s style) that sadly did not fit. #garmentsewing
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Thrifted some well-made dress shirts today at @bigreuse.bsky.social Tried on a wonderful home-sewn dress ('60s style) that sadly did not fit. #garmentsewing
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Join us and our friends from @bigreuse.bsky.social for these upcoming programs at the Library and learn what's happening with #Composting in NYC!
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February 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Join us and our friends from @bigreuse.bsky.social for these upcoming programs at the Library and learn what's happening with #Composting in NYC!
www.queenslibrary.org/search/calen...
www.queenslibrary.org/search/calen...
We are lucky that coalitions like the Public Environmental Data Project exist and acted quickly to restore the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), a digital mapping tool used to identify environmentally disadvantaged communities (DACs), crucial to environmental justice work.
‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump - Inside Climate News
As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it...
insideclimatenews.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We are lucky that coalitions like the Public Environmental Data Project exist and acted quickly to restore the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), a digital mapping tool used to identify environmentally disadvantaged communities (DACs), crucial to environmental justice work.
Nando Rodriguez from Brotherhood Sister Sol @brosis512.bsky.social is leading a campaign to bring 1,000 composting sites to every borough. Here’s why he’s doing it.
The Fight to Keep Community Composting Alive in NYC
Nando Rodriguez from Brotherhood Sister Sol is leading a campaign to bring 1,000 composting sites to every borough. Here’s why he's doing it.
citylimits.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Nando Rodriguez from Brotherhood Sister Sol @brosis512.bsky.social is leading a campaign to bring 1,000 composting sites to every borough. Here’s why he’s doing it.
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If you are in nyc, I recommend going to @bigreuse.bsky.social where perhaps you too can find your emotional support espresso mug. Also their books are incredibly priced, $3.99/paperback and $4.99/hardcover usually.
January 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you are in nyc, I recommend going to @bigreuse.bsky.social where perhaps you too can find your emotional support espresso mug. Also their books are incredibly priced, $3.99/paperback and $4.99/hardcover usually.
We love rehoming treasures like this, keeping it out of the landfill to be loved by someone new! Thank you for sharing 💚
I found the most perfect espresso mug at Big Reuse the other weekend, there is no brand indicator and it was the only one.
I’m pretty numb about yesterday’s events, but if this mug breaks I will die. So that’s where I’m at.
I’m pretty numb about yesterday’s events, but if this mug breaks I will die. So that’s where I’m at.
January 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We love rehoming treasures like this, keeping it out of the landfill to be loved by someone new! Thank you for sharing 💚
"Spearheaded by NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler and nonprofit Big Reuse, the initiative offers residents a low-cost tree guard option for just $275, significantly less than traditional designs." [email protected]
Learn more: bigreuse.org/treeguards
Learn more: bigreuse.org/treeguards
Affordable Tree Guard Pilot Project Takes Root in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN — A new pilot program in Brooklyn is making it easier and more affordable for residents to protect the city’s urban tree canopy, one of the most critical resources in the fight against climat...
nyc.urbanize.city
January 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Spearheaded by NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler and nonprofit Big Reuse, the initiative offers residents a low-cost tree guard option for just $275, significantly less than traditional designs." [email protected]
Learn more: bigreuse.org/treeguards
Learn more: bigreuse.org/treeguards
Big Reuse founder and executive director Justin Green was interviewed for this article on mandatory curbside composting in NYC.
“A lot of environmental change starts to happen at the community level,” Green said. “It’s a huge lift to change the behavior of millions of people." Read the story here:
“A lot of environmental change starts to happen at the community level,” Green said. “It’s a huge lift to change the behavior of millions of people." Read the story here:
New York City now mandates composting. Next comes the hard part.
Municipal composting programs like NYC’s aim to reduce methane emissions from landfills, but implementing them effectively is a long process. Just ask…
www.canarymedia.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Big Reuse founder and executive director Justin Green was interviewed for this article on mandatory curbside composting in NYC.
“A lot of environmental change starts to happen at the community level,” Green said. “It’s a huge lift to change the behavior of millions of people." Read the story here:
“A lot of environmental change starts to happen at the community level,” Green said. “It’s a huge lift to change the behavior of millions of people." Read the story here:
"Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul."
New York to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change
Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul
abcnews.go.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul."
Drop off your holiday tree at NYC Parks for Mulchfest between now and January 12. Find a Mulchfest location near you!
Mulchfest : NYC Parks
Recycle your holiday tree with NYC Parks! After the holidays, drop off your tree at a Mulchfest location to be recycled. We will convert your tree into mulch to be used in parks across the city. Find ...
www.nycgovparks.org
January 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Drop off your holiday tree at NYC Parks for Mulchfest between now and January 12. Find a Mulchfest location near you!
"Governor Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill S5331, which expands the original NYS Food Donation and Food Scraps Recovery Law...
"The new amendments to the law lower the threshold of food waste generators that must comply to an annual average of 1 ton/week starting January 1, 2026."
"The new amendments to the law lower the threshold of food waste generators that must comply to an annual average of 1 ton/week starting January 1, 2026."
New York State Amends Food Scraps Disposal Ban | BioCycle
Under the law, businesses and institutions that generate an annual average of 2 tons/week or more must donate excess edible food and recycle all remaining food scraps if they are within 25 miles of an...
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December 26, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"Governor Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill S5331, which expands the original NYS Food Donation and Food Scraps Recovery Law...
"The new amendments to the law lower the threshold of food waste generators that must comply to an annual average of 1 ton/week starting January 1, 2026."
"The new amendments to the law lower the threshold of food waste generators that must comply to an annual average of 1 ton/week starting January 1, 2026."
Funded by Council Member @lincolnrestler.bsky.social, we have created a more affordable tree guard for New York City residents!
A healthy urban tree canopy is a locally impactful action we can take to mitigate climate change—and tree guards keep our street trees safe.
A healthy urban tree canopy is a locally impactful action we can take to mitigate climate change—and tree guards keep our street trees safe.
Here's how North Brooklyn residents are working to protect vulnerable trees
Brooklynites are trying to protect the new young trees coming to the borough after an ambitious effort to plant more than 3,000 trees in one district.
www.cbsnews.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Funded by Council Member @lincolnrestler.bsky.social, we have created a more affordable tree guard for New York City residents!
A healthy urban tree canopy is a locally impactful action we can take to mitigate climate change—and tree guards keep our street trees safe.
A healthy urban tree canopy is a locally impactful action we can take to mitigate climate change—and tree guards keep our street trees safe.
ICYMI #HakiCompost is back collecting food scraps on Roosevelt Island, Saturday mornings at Motorgate Plaza. They're hosting a volunteer orientation 12/14 from 11 to 11:30am for those interested in getting involved!
Roosevelt Island Haki Compost Collective Is Back For Your Food Scraps Every Saturday At Motorgate Plaza - New Volunteers Are Welcome, Orientation This Saturday
The Roosevelt Island Haki Compost Collective is back collecting your food scraps at the Motorgate Plaza every Saturday next to the Farmers ...
rooseveltislander.blogspot.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:29 PM
ICYMI #HakiCompost is back collecting food scraps on Roosevelt Island, Saturday mornings at Motorgate Plaza. They're hosting a volunteer orientation 12/14 from 11 to 11:30am for those interested in getting involved!
More coverage of our street tree planting with Rise Light & Power 🌱 Thanks again to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for supporting this initiative in Astoria, Queens!
AM Zohran Mamdani announces tree-planting partnership with ‘Rise Light and Power’ and ‘Big Reuse’ to improve air quality in Queens - Astoria Post
Dec. 9, 2024 By Colum Motherway Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani and Rise Light & Power have announced a new streetscape beautification and
astoriapost.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:37 PM
More coverage of our street tree planting with Rise Light & Power 🌱 Thanks again to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for supporting this initiative in Astoria, Queens!